• Carobeth (Tucker) Laird (July 20, 1895 – August 5, 1983) was an American ethnographer and linguist, known for her memoirs and ethnographic studies of...
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    Uto-Aztecan language family. First transcribed by John P. Harrington and Carobeth Laird in the early 20th century, it was studied in the 1970s by linguist Margaret...
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  • known primarily through the writings of Carobeth Laird, based on the testimony of her Chemehuevi husband, George Laird. These narratives show their closest...
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  • cricketer Carobeth Laird (1895–1983), American anthropologist Charlton Laird (1901–1984), American linguist and lexicographer Chris Laird (1893–1968)...
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    Geology and ore deposits of the Goodsprings quadrangle, Nevada, U.S. Carobeth Laird, The Chemehuevis, Malki Museum Press, 1976. Elizabeth Harrington, "Yesterday:...
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    heavy and unimpressionable," and "lazy, cruel, cowardly, and covetous." Carobeth Laird, in her 1975 autobiography, Encounter with an Angry God (p. 176), describes...
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    Jones, co-writer of The Fantasticks, went to high school in Coleman Carobeth Laird, ethnologist, was born in Coleman Camp Colorado was established in 1855...
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    documented includes: Harrington was married to Carobeth Laird (née Tucker) from 1916 to 1923, a relationship that Laird later chronicled in her 1975 memoir Encounter...
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    relate to an ethnohistoric narrative, known as Khra'wiyawi, collected by Carobeth Laird from Juan and Juana Menendez at the Leonis Adobe in 1916. In the narrative...
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    Hurston (1891–1960) Diamond Jenness (1886–1969) Mary Kingsley (1862–1900) Carobeth Laird (1895–1983) Ruth Landes (1908–1991) Edmund Leach (1910–1989) José Leite...
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